mirza

From Persian میرزا‎ (mirzâ).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪəzə/, /ˈməːzə/

mirza (plural mirzas)

1. (now historical) An educated man in India or Iran; an official, a clerk. [from 16th c.]
   • 1788, Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, VI.65:

     The same success attended the other mirzas and emirs in their excursions.

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 46:

     This he presented to the Khan of Puhra, who called upon his mirza, or clerk, to read it aloud.

• Mizar, ziram